It's not WINDOWS that forces businesses to keep buying new versions Windows... It's OFFICE. Cross suite compatibility is never complete, so document conversion and retraining are WAY to expensive to justify changing office suites, even when it's 'free'. And that includes Outlook (and subquently Exchange).

Sure, windows has some nice services (domain login's, etc.) but that's not enough to cement it into the heart of business.

It's their DATA.

If you're going to replace windows, your replacement better run OFFICE.

Ah, yes, but just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean you SHOULD. One starts to wonder if the Judge is getting his own "$80k per violation" to allow that kind of award in a trial with little or no evidence being presented...
 

...but the problem is, most sites thing $.50 or $1 is a "micropayment" because you're not paying $12.95/month for it.

It's the same problem with downloading music for $1 per song. Um.. No. That's $12 for an album, which is what I can usually find it for in a store.

Micro-payments must be just that... MICRO. That means LESS than $.01. Along the lines of $.001 or less, and you have to CONSTANTLY keep people informed as to their balance and/or tab....

And, if you're counting on USERS to provide you your content (a la YouTube), you better PAY them for giving you their content...

Let's review:

Age 16. Old enough to drive. Old enough to engage in sexual activities in SOME states.

Age 18. Old enough vote. Old enough to enlist in the military.

Age 21. FINALLY old enough to drink (die for the country, but can't toast it?)

So, which one-age would you like?

I'm guessing that's the point. He's either trying to 'save face', or he's concerned that if he does back down, his ability to prosecute these types of cases will be called into question. He might be hoping that it goes to some sort of committee or arraignment where they will over rule him.

Then, he could use that in a campaign for Attorney General to 'protect our children, even from themselves'.

He'll win by a land-slide.

Just out of curiosity, how was Google's Crawler allowed to FIND the information in the first place to put it in the cache?

You don't suppose that maybe the problem is in the ORIGINAL server allowing too much access, do you?

Google just "remembers" your mistake for a LONG time.

And IE7 is pile of crap how exactly?

Standards not withstanding, IE7's toolbar and tab layout are completely contrary to every windows application out there. Microsoft seems to be forgetting that 1/2 the reason people like their software is because they can find stuff, and even though there is NEW stuff, everything is where it used to be.

-No menu bar.
-a new tab button that shows up when you to go click on it to get a new tab.
-Multiple Home pages.
-WTF is a "PAGE" button/menu supposed to mean?

The list goes on.

At least I can set google as my default search engine.

Who gives a shit? 18% of the people probably still think the world is flat. I bet a lot of those people said that because they're resisting buying a new TV.. or, like my Mom, who bought a new SD TV 4 years ago, and really doesn't want to buy a new one yet.

Where's this story: 82% of the people think that HD television is better than SD television. If that's not news worth, why is this?